You just knew they were going to get that thing down the second they possibly could.
Zee Grega (zeegrega) on June 24th, 2008 @ 11:13 am
Per your request :)
My late brother & I would call this one "the scary Denny’s". And I’d mention it to someone without explaining to them what I meant and they’d all immediately say, "Oh, you mean the Ballard Denny’s"?
No Denny’s anywhere is quite the model of the best restaurant ever, but generally you get at least okay food and while every Denny’s everywhere deserves its reputation for lackluster service, most of the time the service is adequate enough. The Ballard Denny’s, though….Bad food. Not okay, but bad. The service? If your server wasn’t snotty and rude, he or she was simply absent. Wait times were incredible. I got stuck going there once when a friend insisted and it took 20 minutes for them to bring out coffee. In the middle of the day. There were two other tables.
There are some bars in Ballard that I like better than others but generally drinking in a bar in Ballard is cool. I enjoyed the Ballard bars back when "nobody" lived in Ballard and it was just another quiet blue collar part of town. I enjoyed the Ballard bars even after the hipsters and the yuppies moved in. There’s something about Ballard that makes most people just kinda chill and be decent…but not if they went to the Ballard Denny’s where they all immediately became weird and scary.
Normally I’m the first one to throw a hissy when a part of old Seattle gets torn down but this was just an exceptionally shitty example of a mediocre national chain in an odd looking building. I’m not thrilled that condos are going up but I’m not at all sad that Denny’s is going down.
There was some argument that the building was historically significant for its architecture and that swayed me for a while but over time I’ve changed my mind. If they could’ve saved the building and turned it into some new, vibrant business that would’ve been cool (I do often think that it’s worth saving buildings simply because we can) but there wasn’t any point in saving it because it had been a Denny’s, you know?
You just knew they were going to get that thing down the second they possibly could.
Per your request :)
My late brother & I would call this one "the scary Denny’s". And I’d mention it to someone without explaining to them what I meant and they’d all immediately say, "Oh, you mean the Ballard Denny’s"?
No Denny’s anywhere is quite the model of the best restaurant ever, but generally you get at least okay food and while every Denny’s everywhere deserves its reputation for lackluster service, most of the time the service is adequate enough. The Ballard Denny’s, though….Bad food. Not okay, but bad. The service? If your server wasn’t snotty and rude, he or she was simply absent. Wait times were incredible. I got stuck going there once when a friend insisted and it took 20 minutes for them to bring out coffee. In the middle of the day. There were two other tables.
There are some bars in Ballard that I like better than others but generally drinking in a bar in Ballard is cool. I enjoyed the Ballard bars back when "nobody" lived in Ballard and it was just another quiet blue collar part of town. I enjoyed the Ballard bars even after the hipsters and the yuppies moved in. There’s something about Ballard that makes most people just kinda chill and be decent…but not if they went to the Ballard Denny’s where they all immediately became weird and scary.
Normally I’m the first one to throw a hissy when a part of old Seattle gets torn down but this was just an exceptionally shitty example of a mediocre national chain in an odd looking building. I’m not thrilled that condos are going up but I’m not at all sad that Denny’s is going down.
There was some argument that the building was historically significant for its architecture and that swayed me for a while but over time I’ve changed my mind. If they could’ve saved the building and turned it into some new, vibrant business that would’ve been cool (I do often think that it’s worth saving buildings simply because we can) but there wasn’t any point in saving it because it had been a Denny’s, you know?
I got my worst case of food poisoning ever from that Denny’s.
So, not that sad it’s coming down.